SRS Legal advises public bodies and private entities on project development, infrastructure financing, and public law matters. The projects department has extensive experience across the energy, transport, and infrastructure sectors, particularly in PPPs. José Luís Moreira da Silva, who focuses on projects in the energy, infrastructure and transport sectors in Portugal and other Lusophone countries, oversees the practice with finance specialist Alexandra Valente. João Filipe Graça focuses on procurement, concessions, and regulatory issues in the energy and telecoms sectors, while Mariana Silva Marques is active in PPPs, administrative concessions and public procurement.
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Administrative; Environmental; Energy; Investment Arbitration; PPP/PFI; Public Procurement; Regulatory, Public and Civil Litigation
Position
Partner and Head of the Projects and Environment Departments, as well as the Transport and Shipping Department, José Luís Moreira da Silva has been involved in numerous arbitrations and litigation procedures, as well as advising the government, Portuguese and international companies on a wide range of matters. He is also the Head of SRS ' Mozambique Desk.
With over 30 years of experience, José Luis advises the major Portuguese port authorities and the Portuguese road operator on a wide range of high level issues and projects, as well as the Portuguese Public-Private Partnerships health programme on the construction and development of various hospitals.
He is currently coordinator for the programme to conform port legislation for all APLOP member countries (Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Macau, Morocco, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe, and East Timor). He is President of the Portuguese section of UIA (Union Internationale des Avocats).
Career
- Since 2003 – Partner of Simmons & Simmons Rebelo de Sousa, now SRS Advogados; currently Head of the Public and Environmental Law
- Since 2017 – President of the Portuguese branch of Union International d'Avocats (UIA)
- Was a member of the High Council of Administrative and Tax Courts and previously member of the High Council of the Judiciary, elected by Parliament
- 2005 to 2010 Member of Supreme Judicial Counsel
- Since 2004 – Considered a specialist in Administrative Law by the Portuguese Bar Association
- 2000 to 2004 - Member of Supreme Administrative and Fiscal Court Counsel
- Was Assistant at the Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon
- 1980s and 1990s – Member of Parliament and government adviser in the area of road and harbour infrastructures
Languages
Portuguese, English, French, Spanish
Memberships
- Portuguese Bar Association
- Union Internationale des Avocats
- Portuguese Arbitration Association
Education
- Master of Laws in Public Law, Catholic University of Portugal (Lisbon)
- Postgraduate Diploma in EU Law, Catholic University of Portugal (Lisbon)
- Degree in Law, University of Lisbon School of Law
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‘José Luis Moreira da Silva provides excellent, commercially savvy advice. He is incredibly responsive and helpful, and you feel that you are in very capable hands.’
‘Competence, rigour, and seriousness.’
Key clients
- APL - Port Authority of Lisbon AVIAPARTNER APSS - Setubal and Sesimbra Port Authority TRANSTEJO European Commission Cellnex APRAM – Administração dos Portos da Região Autónoma da Madeira Repsol Portugal Export Finance Australia (EFA) Commonwealth of Australia - represented by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade ABN ENAPOR - Empresa Nacional de Administração dos Portos, SA APS - Port Authority of Sines and the Algarve, S.A. Portos dos Açores, S.A. Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa GALP APL - Port Authority of Lisbon (main Portuguese port) AVIAPARTNER APSS - Setubal and Sesimbra Port Authority TRANSTEJO European Commission Cellnex APRAM – Administração dos Portos da Região Autónoma da Madeira Repsol Portugal Export Finance Australia (EFA) Commonwealth of Australia - represented by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade ABN ENAPOR - Empresa Nacional de Administração dos Portos, SA APS - Port Authority of Sines and the Algarve, S.A. Portos dos Açores, S.A. Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa GALP
Work highlights
Advising APL on the transfer of all Silopor's assets to Silotagus, a public company wholly owned and created by the Port Authority of Lisbon (APL), to enter into a concession agreement with APL, and to prepare for its future privatisation.